Example sentences of "could have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 2 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 3 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 4 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 5 | Could have been on that . |
| 6 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 7 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 8 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 9 | How many people could have been under such a constant strain , for so long ? |
| 10 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 11 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 12 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 13 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 14 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
| 15 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 16 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 17 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
| 18 | Tamsin , being half and half , could have been in any of them . |
| 19 | The first visit to Brussels , the amend , the first visit to Brussels we had to go and bail you out because the Commission , the Commission , we could have been in this er |
| 20 | Erm , although I think Helena Landless could have been in this tradition do n't you ? |
| 21 | These guys could have been from any one of them . |